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©f humane Bodies, it would not only fliorten the fludy 
of Anatomy^ but befides make it a great deal left naufj- 
ous to the Beginners. 
I found upon enquiry that Surgery is but indifferent* 
ly pradis'd all over Italy. It feems very ftrange in 
that Country, where have been fuch eminent Men, as 
Fabrlcius ab Aquapendente^ Fallopms^ Tuliacotifif^ both 
Marchettk, M. A. Sever inus, &c, Af. Dufau^ a French 
Surgeon at Rome^ having made with good faccefs tlie 
future of one of the Tendons Extenforis Communis digl^ 
torum^ it was look'd upon by feveral Italians almoft a^ 
a piece of Witchcraft. There is indeed a famous Li- 
thotomid at Florence^ Signior Colechiani ^ but in moft 
even of the greateft Cities, they have only Noremos, 
By that name they mean theNativesof Nm/^, a little^ 
Town in the ftate of the Pope^ where laying afide foaie 
tew Priefts, Lawyers and Tradefmen, all the peo- 
ple of the Town ar^ bred up Operators for the Stom, 
CataraSs and Ruptures. 
Since I have begun to fpeak of Surgery, I will com- 
municate to you an obfervation I made upon the 5/w 
chocele^ a diftemper very frequent all over Lombardy, 
^nd Savoyr By the difpofition of this tumor, I am fa- 
risfy'd it has principally its feat in the Glandule thyroi 
des^ and fometimes too, but very feidom, ia the Pi- 
rotis Congldbata, I could plainly fee the Parotides Lon- 
glomerat<£ were no ways concern'd. This I have 
obferv'd in feveral Bronchoceles of a very great bignefs. 
1 conceive thefe tumors f that are generally attributed 
to the Water the People drink , that is melted 
Snow J do proceed a Lentore Lymph£^ which by _ de- 
grees extend th^folliculi Gtandularum membranoji :^ and 
being there congealed,' hardens them to that degree, 
that an inveterate Branchocele is almoft lite ? Stone?. 
But why thefe Swellings are to be feen no where elfe, 
bat in thefe glands of the Neck, it isdiiiicult to give a 
good.reafon-lt may be the .natural conformation cf^ the 
